2024 Hobby Box Stats

Since we're getting our first real significant snowstorm tonight, I decided to log the Hobby Box and check out a few statistics from TCDB.  

Out of what was supposed to be 240 cards in the box (Topps/Fanatics is also getting in on the shrinkflation phenomenon) the breakdown was as follows:

200    Base Cards with 22 duplicates -- so 222/240 base cards (92.5%)

2        Rainbow Foils (Baltimore Orioles TC & NL Leaders Batting Average) -- 2/240 (0.83%)

5        1989 Base Designs -- 5/240 (2.1%)

1        All Topps Team (Matt Olson)

2        2023 Greatest Hits (Acuna & Matt Olson)

1        Celebration of the Kid Ken Griffey Jr

2        Grand Gamers (Carew & Seaver)

1        Home Run Challenge (Mookie Betts)

1        Superstar Blueprint (Bobby Witt Jr)

1        Major League Material (KeBryan Hayes)

So doing the math I got a total of 238 cards (thanks for shorting it even further) -- so turns out to cost about $0.38 per card. Definitely enjoyed opening this box this year, and was glad to use a gift card from work instead of my own cash on this box!

Doubt I'll be doing another hobby box -- there are soooo many inserts and subsets and parallels its crazy), so plan to just get the 150 remaining base cards by raiding the LCS dime box, a few blasters and retail packs, and trading away duplicates.

Below are the duplicates -- minus Ryan Jeffers who I forgot to scan in!